Academic Directors, Advisory Board and Cooperation Partners of the MKGD Research Network
Academic Directors:
- Prof. Dr. Isabelle Deflers
Professor of Early Modern History at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, University of the Bundeswehr Munich; member of the board of the Working Group of Military Hstory (Arbeitskreis Militärgeschichte e.V., AKM), Germany
Main research interests: Cultural history of violence in the early modern period, women in early modern writing on military and war - Prof. Dr. Karen Hagemann
James G. Kenan Distinguished Professor of History and Adjunct Professor of the Curriculum in Peace, War, and Defense, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States
Main research interests: Gender and the history of military and war from early modern to contemporary history; women in the military and war; regional and temporal comparison.
Advisory Board:
- Prof. Dr. Maja Apelt
Professor of Sociology at the University of Potsdam, Germany
Main research interests: Military sociology and gender, organization studies - Dr. Kerstin Bischl
Academic Coordinator of „KonKoop“, Center for East European and International Studies, Berlin, Germany
Main research interests: History of Eastern Europe in the 20th century, war, violence and gender - PD Dr. Anne-Laure Briatte
Maîtresse de conférences mit Habilitation, Université Paris 4 La Sorbonne, France
Main research interests: Sexual violence in modern history; history of citizenship, feminism and anti-feminism - Prof. Dr. Tanja Bührer
University Professor of Global History at the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, Austria
Main research interests: Colonial and global history with a regional focus on East Africa and South Asia (18th-20th century), history of violence and military history - PD Dr. Anke Fischer-Kattner
Research Associate at the Professorship of Early Modern History at the University of the Bundeswehr Munich, Germany
Main research interests: European history; cultural history of violence and war; entangled histories Europe-Africa - PD Dr. Gundula Gahlen,
Research Associate of the German Research Foundation Research Group “Military Cultures of Violence – Illegitimate Military Violence from the Early Modern Period to the Second World War”, Paris Lodron University Salzburg, Austria
Main research interests: Culture, military and gender history of violence during the Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars; sexual violence in war - Prof. Dr. Christa Hämmerle
ao. University Professor at the Institute of History at the University of Vienna; Head of the research group on “Sexual Violence in the First World War”, Austria
Main research interests: Military and gender history of the modern era; sexual violence - Dr. Friederike Hartung
Research Assistant, Research Department, Military History until 1945, Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr
Main research interests: Cavalry of the Reichswehr and military masculinity constructions as well as the gender perspective in military history - Prof. Dr. Isabel Heinemann
Professor of Contemporary History, Faculty of Cultural Studies, University of Bayreuth, Germany
Main research interests: National Socialism, the Holocaust and the consequences for the history of European societies; contemporary history after 1945 and gender - Dr. Jasper Heinzen
Senior Lecturer in Modern History, University of York, York, United Kingdom
Main research interests: 19th century history, military history; gender history - PD Dr. Eva Herschinger
Senior Lecturer at the University of the Bundeswehr Munich, Center for Intelligence and Security Studies
Main research interests: The significance of gender for radicalisation and terrorism; international relations; critical security studies - Prof. Dr. Thomas Kühne,
Director, Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and Strassler Colin Flug Professor of Holocaust History an der Clark University, Worcester, MA, USA
Main research interests: Holocaust studies, history of the military and masculinity - Prof. Dr. Maren Röger,
Professor of History of Eastern Europe / East Central Europe at the University of Leipzig; Director of the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe, Germany
Main research interests: Eastern European history, violence and gender history in modern times
Further Cooperation Partners:
Bundeswehr Centre of Military History and Social Sciences (Zentrum für Militärgeschichte und Sozialwissenschaften der Bundeswehr, ZMSBw), Potsdam, Germany:
- Prof. Dr. Dr. Alaric Searle
Senior Scientist and Head of the Research Department at ZMSBw
Main areas of research: Military history from 1500 to the present day - Linus Birrel, MA
Research Associate, research area deployment, coordinator and contact person of the research network at the ZMSBw
Main research interests: Military history of the 20th and 21st centuries; soldierly role models and masculinity; tactics and doctrine
Museum of Military History Vienna (Heeresgeschichtliches Museum Wien, HGM), Austria:
- Dr. Georg Hoffmann
Director of the HGM
Main research interests: Military history from 1600 to the present Military history - Dr. Sabine Jesner
Historian at the HGM
Main research interests: Military history of the early modern period; history of military antiquity - Dr. Claudia Reichl-Ham
Deputy Head of the Department of Military History Research, Head of Publications and Library Department, HGM
Main research interests: Military history from the early modern period to 1918 with a focus on Habsburg-Ottoman relations, military chaplaincy
Military History Working Group (Arbeitskreis Militärgeschichte, AKM), Germany:
- Prof. Dr. Martin Klauss
Chairmen of the AKM; Professor of European History in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period at the Technical University Chemnitz
Main areas of research: War in the Middle Ages; war narratives; soundscape of Medieval warfare
Cooperation Partners at Universities and Research Institutions:
- Prof. Dr Aaron Belkin
Professor, Department of Political Science, San Francisco State University, Director, Palm Center (1998-2022)
Main research interests: LGBTQ+ and military service; Military masculinity; Coups d’etat; Judicial reform
- Prof. Dr. Natalya Benkhaled-Vince
Sanderson Tutorial Fellow and Associate Professor in Modern History, University College, Oxford University
Main research interests: Global histories of decolonisation, oral history and memory, women’s and gender history - Prof. Dr. Stefanie Bock
Professor of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure Law, International Criminal Law and Comparative Law at the University of Marburg; Head of the Research Training Group Gender-based Violence, Germany
Main research interests: Sociology of conflict and violence, international law and gender - Prof. Dr. Bettina Brockmeyer
Professor of German and Transnational History of the long 19th Century and Colonial History at the Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Germany
Main research interests: Colonial history, German and transnational history in the long 19th century, gender and body history - Prof. Dr. Jason Crouthamel
Professor of History, Grand Valley State University, Allendale MI, USA
Main research interests: Military masculinity, history of homosexuality in the military, history of emotions in war - Prof. Dr. Stefan Dudink
Assistant Professor for Gender and Diversity Studies and History at Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands
Main research interests: Military, masculinity and civil rights from the early modern period to the 19th century; sexuality and masculinity - Prof. Dr. Marian Füssel
Professor of Early Modern History at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany
Main research interests: Cultural history of violence in the early modern period - Apl. Prof. Dr. Béatrice Hendrich
Professor of Turkish Studies at the Institute for Languages and Cultures of the Islamic World at the University of Cologne, Germany
Main research interests: Women in combat operations; Gender history of the Turkish Republic - Dr. Jutta Hergenhan
Academic Director, Center for Media and Interactivity, Justus Liebig University Giessen; Department of Gender Cultures and War, Germany
Main research interests: Political science, cultural and media history of war and gender - PD Dr. Claudia Kemper
Research Associate for modern and contemporary history at the LWL Institute for Westphalian Regional History, Münster, Germany
Main research interests: Gender and historical peace and conflict research - Prof. Dr. Birthe Kundrus
University Professor of Social and Economic History/Social History at the University of Hamburg; speaker for the Hamburg state research funding program “Gewalt-Zeiten: Temporalities of violent undertakings”, Germany
Main research interests: Gender, the history of war, colonial/postcolonial studies - Prof. Dr. Ulrike Lindner
Professor of Modern History, in particular the history of Europe and European colonialism at the University of Cologne; member of the Global South Studies Center (GSSC), Germany
Main research interests: European colonialism, colonial wars and gender - Prof. Dr. Maren Lorenz
Professor of Early Modern History and Gender History at the Ruhr University Bochum; member of the board of the Arbeitskreis Historische Frauen und Geschlechterforschung e.V. (AKHFG), Germany
Main research interests: Cultural history of violence, military and gender in the early modern
period - Prof. Dr. Elissa Mailänder
Associate Professor for Contemporary History at the University Sciences Po, Paris, France
Main research interests: History of violence, gender and sexuality, photography, material culture and the history of everyday life - Dr. Regina Mühlhäuser
Research associate at the Hamburg Foundation for the Promotion of Science and Culture; co-founder and coordinator of the International Research Group “Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict”, Germany
Main research interests: History of violence, gender and sexuality, material culture and the history of everyday life - Prof. Dr. Sönke Neitzel
Professor of Military History/Cultural History of Violence at the University of Potsdam; spokesperson for the DFG Research Unit Military Cultures of Violence – Illegitimate Military Violence from the Early Modern Period to the Second World War, Germany
Main research interests: Military and the history of violence in modernity - Prof. Dr. Jutta Nowosadtko
Professor of Early Modern History at the Helmut Schmidt University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg; member of the board of the Arbeitskreis Militär und Gesellschaft in der Frühen Neuzeit e.V. (AMG), Germany
Main research interests: Military and war in the early modern period - Prof. Dr. Jane Ohlmeyer
Erasmus Smith’s Professor of Modern History (1762) at Trinity College Dublin, Director of the Voices Project, funded by the European Research Council, Ireland
Main research interests: Women, war and violence in Irish history; early modern history - Prof. em. Dr. Claudia Opitz-Belakhal
Professor Emerita of Early Modern History at the University of Basel, Switzerland
Main research interests: Military, war and gender in the early modern period - Prof. Dr. Susie Protschky
Professor of Global Political History at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Main research interests: Colonialism and decolonisation, visual culture, history of photography, war and conflict, gender and race. - Dr. Christin Pschichholz
Coordinator of the DFG Research Unit Military Cultures of Violence – Illegitimate Military Violence from the Early Modern Period to the Second World War at the University of Potsdam, Germany
Main research interests: Military cultures of violence, genocide and research on violence in modern times - Prof. Dr. Birgit Sauer,
Professor of Political Science at the University of Vienna,Vice-Speaker of the Gender and Agency Research Network, Austria
Main research interests: Governance and gender; politics of gender relations; theories of state and institutions - Prof. Dr. Peter H. Wilson
Chichele Professor of the History of War, All Souls College, Oxford University, United Kingdom
Main research interests: The impact of war on European and global developments